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Welcome to this edition, featuring 17 articles.

📚 Contents/📝 TL;DR

📚 Contents

📝 TL;DR

Building Agent-Based AI for Amazon RDS for SQL Server Using Strands and AgentCore

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Building Agent-Based AI for Amazon RDS for SQL Server Using Strands and AgentCore

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Using IAM Identity Center Session Tags for Access Control

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Using IAM Identity Center Session Tags for Access Control

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266. From Hongguo to AI Short Plays: Who is Revolutionizing Whom?

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266. From Hongguo to AI Short Plays: Who is Revolutionizing Whom?

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Vercel Now Supports Pro Plan in Stripe Projects

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Vercel Now Supports Pro Plan in Stripe Projects

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The Current State of AI in CNCF Projects: Initial Data Exploration

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The Current State of AI in CNCF Projects: Initial Data Exploration

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Tech Potpourri: Platform's Violent Resistance and the Hidden Tax of Internet Giants

Deep analysis of how platform algorithms covertly exploit small and medium businesses, exposing the profit realities of the internet jungle.

Tech Potpourri: Platform's Violent Resistance and the Hidden Tax of Internet Giants

Deep analysis of how platform algorithms covertly exploit small and medium businesses, exposing the profit realities of the internet jungle.

Wise's Technology Stack Analysis: Treating Internal Platforms as Products

Wise achieves scalability and autonomy in its microservices engineering system by productizing infrastructure, using versioned foundations and automated deployment.

Wise's Technology Stack Analysis: Treating Internal Platforms as Products

Wise achieves scalability and autonomy in its microservices engineering system by productizing infrastructure, using versioned foundations and automated deployment.

Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Workload Analysis and Best Practices

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Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Workload Analysis and Best Practices

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What Does the March 2026 AWS Threat Technology Catalog Update Mean for Your AWS Environment?

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What Does the March 2026 AWS Threat Technology Catalog Update Mean for Your AWS Environment?

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Fragments: April 29

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Fragments: April 29

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Features and Workflow of Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3

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Features and Workflow of Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3

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Native Deployment Checks is now available

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Native Deployment Checks is now available

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Google's AI Strategy: Not Betting on Models, But on What? | Google Cloud Next Live S10E09

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Google's AI Strategy: Not Betting on Models, But on What? | Google Cloud Next Live S10E09

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Creating an Amazon RDS for Db2 Monitoring Dashboard

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Creating an Amazon RDS for Db2 Monitoring Dashboard

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Exploring Type-Safe .NET Development with Gremlinq for Amazon Neptune

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Exploring Type-Safe .NET Development with Gremlinq for Amazon Neptune

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Vercel Sandbox Custom Label Feature Launches Beta Version

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Vercel Sandbox Custom Label Feature Launches Beta Version

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The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades Cluster

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The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades Cluster

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Primary

Building Agent-Based AI for Amazon RDS for SQL Server Using Strands and AgentCore

AWS - Databases•Published on April 29

Insight•AI Operations•Score: 8/10

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Using IAM Identity Center Session Tags for Access Control

AWS - Security•Published on April 28

Insight•Identity and Access Management•Score: 7/10

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266. From Hongguo to AI Short Plays: Who is Revolutionizing Whom?

Book Flips•Published on April 28

Insight•Pan-Entertainment Technology•Score: 7/10

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Vercel Now Supports Pro Plan in Stripe Projects

Vercel News•Published on April 29

Insight•DevOps Toolchain•Score: 7/10

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The Current State of AI in CNCF Projects: Initial Data Exploration

CNCF•Published on April 29

Insight•Cloud-Native AI•Score: 6/10

Essential

Tech Potpourri: Platform's Violent Resistance and the Hidden Tax of Internet Giants

Tech Scramble•Published on April 29

Insight•Industry Observations•Score: 9/10

Platform EconomyIndustry RegulationTraffic MonetizationBusiness Model

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Wise's Technology Stack Analysis: Treating Internal Platforms as Products

ByteByteGo•Published on April 29

Insight•Platform Engineering•Score: 9/10

Platform EngineeringMicroservicesCI/CDHigh Availability

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Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Workload Analysis and Best Practices

AWS - Databases•Published on April 29

Insight•Time Series Database•Score: 9/10

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What Does the March 2026 AWS Threat Technology Catalog Update Mean for Your AWS Environment?

AWS - Security•Published on April 28

Insight•Cloud Security•Score: 8/10

**AWS Security****Threat Technology Catalog****Cognito Refresh Token****AMI Deletion****IAM Role****Privilege Escalation**

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Fragments: April 29

Martin Fowler•Published on April 29

Insight•Software Engineering•Score: 8/10

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Features and Workflow of Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3

AWS - Databases•Published on April 29

Insight•Time Series Database•Score: 8/10

InfluxDB 3Amazon TimestreamApache ArrowParquetRustSQL

General

Native Deployment Checks is now available

Vercel News•Published on April 28

News•CI/CD•Score: 6/10

VercelDeployment ChecksCode QualityLintTypecheckAI Agent

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Google's AI Strategy: Not Betting on Models, But on What? | Google Cloud Next Live S10E09

What's Next Podcast•Published on April 29

News•AI Strategy•Score: 6/10

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Creating an Amazon RDS for Db2 Monitoring Dashboard

AWS - Databases•Published on April 29

Insight•Database Monitoring•Score: 6/10

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Exploring Type-Safe .NET Development with Gremlinq for Amazon Neptune

AWS - Databases•Published on April 29

Insight•Graph Database Development•Score: 6/10

Amazon NeptuneGremlinq.NETtype-safeOGMgraph query

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Vercel Sandbox Custom Label Feature Launches Beta Version

Vercel News•Published on April 29

News•PaaS Platform Management•Score: 5/10

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The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades Cluster

NASA APOD•Published on April 29

News•Astronomy•Score: 1/10

MoonVenusPleiades Clusterastronomical phenomenaphotography